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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...lling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble hap piness; for unlike ours, the element in whi... ... guage which men have sought in vain. This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, con tent with slightly and r... ...ory, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they may be made to express a variety of truths. As if they were the skeletons of still older a... ...her a sense of shame left in him which disarmed him. It is a very true and expressive phrase, “He looked daggers at me,” for the first pattern and pro... ...ght be up to the occasion. That is a superfluous wonder, which Dr. Johnson expresses at the assertion of Sir Thomas Browne that “his life has been a m... ...am Jones, “Vyasa, the son of Parasara, has decided that the Veda, with its Angas, or the six compositions deduced from it, the revealed system of medi... ...der them myself. In every man’s brain is the Sanscrit. The Vedas and their Angas are not so ancient as serene contemplation. Why will we be imposed on...

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